Re:Too Fast for its Own Good (Score 1)

No, lets stick to base 10 (which is what disk manufacturers tend to use anyway).

1 GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes

1TB = 1000 GB

1PB = 1000 TB

650MB/s (ATLAS/CMS/LHCb/ALICE detectors) * 60 sec * 60 mins * 24 hours * approx 100 days = 5,616,000,000MB = 5.6PB / year

Unfortunately the LHC needs a nuclear power station (and a hydroelectric one for the computers 8)). I'm not joking, it really does. Running for more than 100 days a year + 30 for some other stuff is not practical unless you want Geneva to freeze during the winter. To put this in perspective the Computing farm is going to use 7 MegaWatts of power and is classed as a small power user